I wanted to install newer versions of Python and Git to my system. I eventually used the commands below to compile and install new versions. However, I was informed that it would have been better to ...

This question is inspired by my use of LaTeX, where you usually share the generated PDF, not the source file. I want my .docx documents to be source files, with PDFs being the files to share. Thus I ...

I have a Makefile where one of many tasks is to upload a file using cURL, one of these files, has a greek character in the name and when I try to upload using cURL, I receive this error:
curl: (43) A ...

I'm compiling GCC on a build server to get access to the latest version of gfortran; after building gmp, mpfr, and mpc into specially-prefixed directories in usr/local, I configured and make'd gcc, ...

Under Linux, sources of projects commonly come with Makefile's. Makefiles contain directives to build these projects using the command make. I am currently forced to use Windows, and so as to be able ...

I want to recompile vim with the same features for a different linux distro. I only kept the source tar and I don't remember any of the arguments I gave ./configure the first time. What's the easiest ...

I am working on Linux Mint 16 and I have working with two copies of a git project in two different directories. Every time I run make in one of the project it and I switch to other project, it will ...

I have downloaded and unzipped lapacke-3.5.0. The installation instructions say to use make in order to install. It goes on to say that configurations must be set in the make.inc file. I am a complete ...

Apt-offline claims to be a utility that allows you to install packages on Debian without internet connection. It can be downloaded from the git repository.
As with many free software, the problem is ...

I'm trying to build CUPS 1.7.3 on Ubuntu Server 14.04. configure didn't produce any errors, but make dies with:
Making all in ppdc...
Making all in scheduler...
Linking cupsd...
dirsvc.o: In function ...

I'm trying to compile the gcc version 2.95.3 on raspbian, I need it in order to compile the 2.6 kernel.
I'm following this tutorial, but when I get to the bootstrapping step, i get
make[1]: Entering ...

In a development project I'm involved in, we have some files in our src folder that don't need to be compiled (such as python files, a custom .bashrc script, etc...). Running make copies these to our ...

I don't want my %PATH% environment variable to be polluted with a bunch of directories and I want to have more control over what executables can be found. I created a folder C:\bin, added it to %PATH% ...

I'm trying to read man pages for make on my server and they are not there. Man pages for other linux commands and built-ins, however, are there.
Does anyone know why this is and how to fix?
Thanks.
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I have an embedded system running linux. I need to install some software, in particular uucp package containing cu command. This is really all i need.
At the moment all I have is a root access to the ...

I have Linux Mint 16 KDE, and I wanted to install the Texas Instruments Emulator from http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilem/download.html.
I downloaded and extracted the source code, and installed all the ...

In my office i have ubuntu where in my project folder i have Makefile.
If i got to folder and then press make and then tab then it shows all option but at my home
i am pressing table after Make and ...

In my project our coder have written the makefile for installing and deploying the web application like
make install.php
which then contain instructions to install it.
I am searching google and you ...